born 30 November 1970

Andres Rokki Archontakis, Bönnigheim, West Germany, writer/director Drew Sky a/k/a Rokki James Hollywood
Donn Andrew Simmons, Fairmont, West Virginia, actor
Ernesto Concepción, Jr., San Juan, Puerto Rico, actor
Frank Hudetz, Chicago, Illinois, actor
George Uhl, Rokycany, Czechoslovakia, Czech porn star
Jean Claude Leuyer, birthplace unspecified, American actor
Jim Maxwell, Alexandria, Scotland, digital matte painter
Michelle Burke, Defiance, Ohio, actress
Mike Davis, Brooklyn, New York, MTV producer
Narciza Leão, Brasília, Brazil, actress
Perrey Reeves, New York, New York, actress
Robert Griffith, Lanham, Maryland, NFL football player
Robert Murphy, Beaumont, Texas, short filmmaker
Sara Morgado, Lisbon, Portugal, TV writer
Walter Jones, Detroit, Michigan, nine-fingered actor



It’s not that I’m overly enamored of Today’s Winner’s looks, or her acting. She’s not bad, but she could really, really stand to eat a sandwich.

No, the reason I feel she deserves some extra recognition is that her “Entourage” character has no name. I’ve been watching that show all this time, even as it’s descended into the most recent joyless season (including the notorious “Buttsex Is Neat” episode, high on my all-time list of Things I’d Just As Soon Unwatch If I Possibly Could). But I never noticed that Ari Gold’s wife’s character is utterly moniker-bereft. That’s far too peripheral a character to deserve that particular gimmick. Lazy.

born 29 November 1970

Boris Eder, birthplace unspecified, Austrian actor/cabaret singer
Bruno Garcia, Olinda, Brazil, actor
Francesco Scura, Rome, Italy, production manger
Ghislain Bergevin, Montreal, Canada, video editor
James Blackburn, Bedford, Indiana, actor
Jason Frederick, Sudbury, Ontario, composer
Larry Joe Campbell, Pontiac, Michigan, actor
Maria Paula, Brasília, Brazil, MTV Brazil VJ
Paola Turbay, Houston, Texas, actress
Patricio Corona, Hermosillo, Mexico, film editor
Peter Hjorth, Copenhagen, Denmark, visual effects supervisor
Robert Mantiopyes (died 16 January 2005), Calgary, Alberta, actor
Rotimi Rainwater, Banbury, England, documentarian
Rudolf Schröder, Berlin, East Germany, cameraman
Sébastien Gendron, Talence, France, assistant editor
Thomas Cheysson, Boulogne, France, documentary writer
Wojciech Szepel, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland, cinematographer


It must be said that while I respect his cussedness, while I love love love The Element of Crime, and while “The Kingdom” ranks up there with the very greatest things I have ever seen in the whole universe of moving pictures, I am done, more or less, with Lars von Trier. Today's Winner seems to have come on board as a key member of von Trier’s team at just about the moment I began to permanently loose interest (Dogville, to be exact).


I feel he has earned recognition for whatever it was he had to do in the last one vis-a-vis Willem Dafoe’s crotch. Whatever it was, I won’t be checking it out anytime soon. That has more to do with my inability to accept Charlotte Gainsbourg as a leading lady, even in a sick-and-twisted anti-context, than with an aversion to on-screen genital mutilation. I guess if it came on cable I might try to see how much of it I could stomach. But we’ll just have to wait and see whether that day ever comes.

born 28 November 1970

Bill Billions, Huntsville, Alabama, actor
David Lowe, Canberra, Australia, short filmmaker
Francesca Lé, Los Angeles, California, porn star
Jason Bell, birthplace unspecified, Canadian grip
Louize Nissen, Saint Croix, Virgin Islands, costume designer
Paulo “Paulgi” Alegria, Oliveira de Azeméis, Portugal, musician/photographer/graphic designer
Shane Powers, Omaha, Nebraska, actor/“Survivor” contestant/father of Boston Powers
Steven Barwin, Cape Town, South Africa, TV writer
Tigerlily, Los Angleles, California, porn star
Todd Perry, Elizabethtown, Kentucky, NFL football player


I am impressed with the photo essays on Today’s Winner’s site. The ones of the Catholic pilgrims in northern Portugal are especially special.

born 27 November 1970

Adenrele Ojo, Brooklyn, New York, actress

Aravier Batiz, Mexico City, production assistant

Brooke Langton, state of Arizona, actress

Emma Boughton, Oxford, England, disc jockey Emma B

Frederick Heim, Toms River, New Jersey, guy who has at one time or another worked out and pasted on a moustache

Gunther Loesdau, Bad Arolsen, West Germany, actor

Henri Deneubourg, birthplace unspecified, French production manager

Kenix Kwok, Hong Kong, actress

Michael Traina, Houston, Texas, writer/director

Patricia Zentilli, Kingston, Ontario, actress

Stephen Evans, birthplace unspecified, Welsh actor

Thane Camus, state of New York, actor

Tina Ona Paukstelis, Kenosha, Wisconsin, actress

Tormod Ringnes, Oslo, Norway, sound designer

Vicente Avella, Caracas, Venezuela, composer

I appreciate the simplicity of Today’s Winner’s website. It exemplifies the kind of home base that a successful independent operator requires to showcase his or her work. It has neither too much nor too little information. It highlights industriousness without seeming hyperactively busy. And it has a catchy enough name.

born 26 November 1970

Adriana Molinari, Buenos Aires, Argentina, porn star Alex Taylor

Dave Hughes, Warnambool, Australia, comedian

Delilah Cotto, Brooklyn, New York, actress

Eve Behar, state of New York, ceramicist/“Strangers With Candy” associate producer/daughter of Joy Behar

Iiristiina Varilo, Helsinki, Finland, actor/dramaturge

Jennifer Moretty, Portland, Oregon, reality TV contestant

John Amaechi, Boston, Massachusetts, recorded history’s only gay NBA basketball player

Lorissa Deanna McComas (died 3 November 2009), Columbus, Ohio, porn star

Sarah Lindborg, Stockholm, Sweden, assistant director

born 25 November 1970

Aleksander Kaufmann, Paris, France, cinematographer

Casey Lee, birthplace unspecified, porn actress who had second thoughts

Izabela Kuna, Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland, actress

Katarzyna Kowalska, Ciechanów, Poland, actress

Katja Hoffmann, Rheinfelden, West Germany, actress

Luigi Lombardi d’Aquino, Naples, Italy, conductor

Michael Litchfield, Lewiston, Maine, actor/Bev-Nap

Michael Werckle, Rockford, Illinois, composer

Nicolas Wall, Shrewsbury, England, actor

Virginia Cavendish, Recife, Brazil, actress

Wes Hagan, Dover, Ohio, location manager

Wilson Kwok, Vancouver, British Columbia, actor

born 24 November 1970

Aaron Pedersen, Alice Springs, Australia, TV actor

Alonso Caparrós, Madrid, Spain, actor

Chad Taylor, Baltimore, Maryland, musician

Craig Nigh, Bryan, Texas, actor

David Montiero, birthplace unspecified, Angolan actor

Doug Brien, Bloomfield, New jersey, NFL placekicker

Jason Throop, Halifax, Nova Scotia, video game tester

Jennifer Dawson, state of New Jersey, producer

Julieta Venegas, Long Beach, California, musician

Mariano Equizzi, Palermo, Italy, Sicilian short filmmaker

Mark Rezvani, Tehran, Iran, writer/director

Madis Milling, Tallinn, Soviet Union, Estonian actor

Peta Einberg, Sydney, Australia, casting director

Ronald Matthew Lee, Dumas, Arkansas, ambience manager

Shanti Roney, Stockholm, Sweden, actor

Sónia Araújo, Porto, Portugal, actress

Vanda Rute Marques, Porto, Portugal, model/actress

born 23 November 1970

Bob Galewski, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, actor

Brandon Boyce, birthplace unspecified, American writer

Christoph Mory, Berlin, East Germany, actor

Christopher Gambale, Brooklyn, New York, Harvey Weinstein’s secretary

Danny Hoch, Brooklyn, New York, monologist

David R.L. Gartner, Cherry Point, North Carolina, hair and makeup assistant

Ileana Cosmovici, Munich, West Germany, actress/short filmmaker

Isabelle Bouysse, Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France, actress

Jonathan Wright, Liverpool, England, assistant director

Kitty Yuen, Hong Kong, actress

Lector McDaniels, Dallas, Texas, thug number one

Matthew Rimmer, Big Spring, Texas, actor

Oded Fehr, Tel Aviv, Israel, actor

Stuart Elliot, Preston, England, documentarian

Thierry Fargeau, Paris, France, steadicam operator

Yukiko Nakatsubo, Aomori, Japan, actress

Zoë Ball, Blackpool, England, disc jockey/Mrs. Fatboy Slim

born 22 November 1970

Gibran Brown, birthplace unspecified, African American child actor

Grace Harlow, Orillia, Ontario, porn star

Johnny Alonso, Queens, New York, actor

Joe Son, birthplace unspecified, Korean ultimate fighter

Kaoru Okunuki, Tokyo, Japan, actress

Marco Busato, birthplace unspecified, Italian child actor

Mark Cleary, Melbourne, Australia, prosthetics technician

Michael Dunn, Las Vegas, Nevada, short filmmaker

Michele Sbledorio, Bari, Italy, film editor

Miguel Ángel Valero, Madrid, Spain, actor/Doctor of Telecommunications

Nigel Wilson, Sheffield, England, lead singer of Bon Jovi tribute band New Jersey

Noah Lee Margetts, Bury Saint Edmunds, England, actor

Stephen Arnott, Mississauga, Ontario, rigging grip

Wendy Mashburn, Santa Monica, California, digital production manager